Blog Post #9: Week 14

Welcome to the final blog post! Team Puffin has come to the end of our senior inquiry journey! In our final week we worked on finalizing the leader board and working out some bug fixes. Our list of high scores shows the top ten highest scores currently present in the database and when a new high score is added, the lowest one is deleted from the database.

We also now have the incorrect characters shown in red when a player makes a wrong guess. This makes it easier for the player to notice what exactly they got wrong in their answer. The keyboard is set up to stay open all the time so that the player doesn't lose time clicking on the edit text every time they start to type their guess.

It was also discovered that the app has a bug that only affects some devices for some reason. Some devices are unable to access the file on Firebase containing all the call signs for an unknown reason. To fix this, we put a copy of the text file in the the app's raw folder so that if they are unable to get the file, they still have the original one. However this does mean that if the text file in Firebase is updated, some devices will not be able to retrieve that new file. Luckily the majority of devices do not have this issue.

We presented our final project and everything went smoothly! We would like to express our appreciation to Dr. Stonedahl for his unwavering helpfulness and support over the course of our project and to Dr. Vincent for his guidance and enthusiasm in testing our app and suggesting how to make it better!